On our View from Earth blog, we look back on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and look forward to Lent with Andrew Barr.
“Sandra’s Diary” reflects on moaning about the weather, and all else. From a programme in 2004, the retired Professor Michael Lynch makes us think again about Reformation Scotland.
In the news, the Reverend Dr John McPake, the Church of Scotland’s ecumenical officer, marked the week of prayer for Christian Unity by expressing profound regret over historical anti-Catholicism in Scotland and in the kirk. Pope Francis has denounced fake news as evil and encouraged journalists tomake it their mission to seek the truth. Hebrew scholars have deciphered the final secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the rituals of the Jewish sect who wrote them.
